It is possible that way speed could overcome the need to stay silent during some parts of some missions, and it may be a way to undermine emerging submarine tracking technologies.

Ryan, Shome thingsh in here don’t react well to Bulletsshhhhhh!

That’s the big question of course. I wouldn’t count on oil prices staying low forever though, especially with Russia increasing it’s influence in the middle east. They could be positioning themselves to eventually drive up the cost of oil for their own benefit, either through conflict or just shrewd politics.

Sounds to me like they’re only modernizing the design and not the boats themselves. These will be all new Alfas with modern tech on board.

Reactive armour

The T-64 is actually higher in the tank hierarchy than the T-72 is...it contained more advanced technology and was more expensive to produce.

I would add a “Phase 0: Red Flag Evacuation” Here there would be a cover operation that had “Discovered a trail of smuggled in nuclear components int downtown Seoul via elaborate tunnel system” They can even discover a highly irradiated corpse with plans for a dirty bomb in an apartment somewhere in Northern Seoul.…

NK has been the biggest threat out there for the last twenty years.

Well they're not popping paper bags over there.

When I was a kid I found a cyanide gas bomb to throw down a gopher hole in my grandpa’s garage. It was bought at the hardware store. It was old. Gassing gophers, just a little too Nazi-esque.

I’m in! Think of the applications. Man what I wouldn’t give to install these on America’s northern border. Fucking Canadian immigrant scum!

Those things are surprisingly accurate. Everytime my dad has had a mole and used one, it has caught it.

Well, time to cave in some molerat tunnels

So...Sand People?

You're right. Calling Hamas desert creatures is too polite.

It’s the same sort of noise you’d hear from either a bunch of small desert creatures eking out a new home under your basement

“...is quite possibly the most sensationalist line of garbage I’ve ever heard.”

Yes, Gawker is having its way with your throat. In your throat. Down your throat. Throat. Throat. #Rubio #Throat

See above.

It’s on Foxtrot Alpha, a military blog. Because it usually focuses on military hardware it is a sub-blog of Jalopnik (imprint or something, not sure their offical terms for it), but occasionally branches out to other aspects. As GITMO is largely (if not entirely) a military facility, it is relevant.